Overview of Te Whare Tapa Whā - Ministry of Health NZ

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If I give an overview of Te Whare Tapa Whā, I should really start by saying
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the purpose of it was to encourage people to develop well-being. Not just fixing up a health
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problem but becoming well in themselves. When I thought about these things I thought that really
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what I've got to do is try and pull together four elements. I've got to pull together the mind,
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hinengaro, I've got to pull together the body so it doesn't get separated from the mind, tinana,
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but every person I see has got a whānau connection of one sort or another so I had to see that as
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part of the solution. I had to try and look at much more of the spiritual experience that
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was wairua. So that's how it began to shape up. It wasn't that these were four separate elements
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they were elements of the same thing, and the same thing is a sense of being well and healthy.